Archaeologists believe they may have discovered two missing chapters of the Analects of Confucius – one of the most important works of Confucianism ... the Western Han dynasty (206 BC ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...

More than 300 years later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), who ruled a unified country of vast territory, supported Confucian thought, with Confucius' teachings as its key exemplar ...

Their efforts have made significant contributions to the dissemination and development of Confucianism in southern China. The tradition of worshiping Confucius originated during the Han Dynasty ...

During the Ming dynasty, Confucianism spread to Korea and Vietnam. In Japan, Confucian classical literature became a fundamental part of the education of the nobility and the elite. These ...

Stepping back even further, we know that Confucianism became Korea's ruling state ideology when King Yi Seo-gye (otherwise known as Taejo) founded the Joseon Dynasty in 1392. In doing so he ...

Also called folk belief or minjian xinyang (民间信仰), Chinese folk religions were recorded as early as the Shang dynasty (c.1600-1046 B.C.E), well before Confucianism and Taoism. Folk religions ...